Message and time recorder



(No Mal.)

J. C. WILSON.

MESSAGE AND TIME EEGOEDEE.

No. 392,838. Patented NOV. 13, 1888.

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SPEGTPICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 392.838, dated November f Application tiled January 25, 1887. Serial No. 225,431.

(No model.) Patented in France April 7, No. 163,136; in England March 22, 1887, No. 4,256, in Belgium March 22, 1887, No. 76,812, and in Austria-Hungary ovcmber 22, 1887, No, 22,131.7.

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Be it known that 1, Jenn C. Witsen, of Boston, county of Suffolk, State ot1 Massachusetts, have invented an improvement in Message and rfinie Recorders, (patented in England March 22, 1887, No. L1,256; Belgium, March 22, 1887, No. 76,812; Austria-Hungary, November 22, 1887, No. 22,817, and shown and described in certificate of addition dated March 22, 1887, to French Patent No. 168,136, April 7, 1885,) of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention has for its object to construct a message and time recorder adapted to register a message on a strip of paper and record the time of its reception on the strip.

The invention consists in the combination, with a niessagerecorder comprising registering mechanism and paper-moving mechanism, of a time-stamp consisting` of a dial and indicating hands or pointers, and means for actuating the hand-stamp automatically to print v the time upon the strip.

The messagereceiving instrument prefer ably consists of an ordinary Morse register adapted to feed the paper strip forward during the time the message is being received; and the time-stamp consists of a dial and an indi cater, hand, or pointer, substantiallyr such as shown in United States Patent granted to J. C. Hinchman, No. 265,808, dated October 22, 1882, the essential features of the present invention consisting in automatically operating the said time-stamp to imprint the paper every time the register operates to move the paper forward and record the message.

Figure 1 shows in diagram a portion of an ordinary Morse recorder, and also a portion of the time-stamp, together with means for actuating the timestamp at each time the recorder operates; Fig. 2, a section of the presser of the time-stamp which presses the paper in contact with the dial, and an electro-magnet for moving the presser, and Figs. 8 and fi, top and under side views of the paper strip upon which the message is recorded.

The recorder a and its actuating-magnet a', the paper-strip ai, and means for moving it only during the time the message is being received, are all substantially as in thc ordinary Morse recorders, so need not be herein specidcally described.

The time-stamp, composed oi a dial, e, and indicators, hands, or pointers o', carried by an arbor, c?, having its bearingsin a bed, Z1, and a presser, Z2', and suitable actuating devices, (not shoivm) are all substantially as in United States Patent Xo. 265,808, above referred to, said stamp being placed adjacent to the rccorder. The paper strip upon which themessage is recorded is fed between the dial and the presser. The presser Z) is secured to an armature-bar, Z1?, oi' an electromagnct, if, so that when the said magnet is energized the presser Z) will be moved.

I have herein shown a magnet a for thc register included in an electric circuit, 2,

containing a battery, 3, said circuit being con- 7 trollcd by the armature d of a relay, 5, included in an electric circuit, G, containing a batt-ery, 7, and a ciimuitchanger, 8 9. The electromagnet 10 is also included in the circuit 2. The armature 12 of such electro-mag net has a detent, which enters a notch cut in a Wheel, 18, controlled bya suitable spring, so that when the armature 12 is contracted the Wheel will be released and thereby rotated. A stud, 11i, projecting laterally from a Wheel, 18, strikes, during the rotation of the Wheel, a pin, 15, closing a circuit,15,containing a battery, 17, thereby causing the magnet Z13 to move the presser against the papern rllhe strip of paper ai is fed forward by the registering ap paratus at each time that the recorder operates to receive a message, and it will be seen that at such time the timestamp will thus be actuated to print the time upon the paper.

As herein shown, the message'will be recorded npon one side of the paper and the time upon the other side; but whilel consider this arrangement most desirable, it is obvious that the time may be printed upon the same side that the message is recorded. By this apparatus a message coming from a distant point may be recorded, together with the time of its reception, npon a single strip ot' paper, which is moved only at the time the message is received.

1 do not herein claim timeprinting wheels adapted to be moved into proper j .iosition or ICO set up intermittingly, in combination with signal-registering mechanism, also comprising a series of wheels adapted to be moved'or set up interniittingly, or step by step; nor do I claim time-printing wheels movable continuously, in combination with another wheel adapted to be moved one step lforward each time the condition oll the circuit is changed to print numbers in succession; and, furthermore, I desire it to be understood that the registering mechanism employed by meis arranged to indicate in code characters any arbitrary signal.

I claiml. In a message and time recorder, the selfstarting register comprising apen and penoperating magnet constituting the registering` mechanism, and papermoving mechanism adapted to move the paper cach time a message is received, combined with a time-stamp comprising time-printing indicators for :indicating thc time upon the same paper upon which the signal is recorded, a motor mechanism l'or moving the time-printing indicators continuously, and an electro-magnet, an electro-magnet included in circuit with the penoperating magnet which controls the circuit of the time-stamp magnet, a relay which controls the circuit of the pen-operating magnet, and a circuit-changing device at a distant point, which controls the circuit ol said relay, substantially as described.

2. In a message and time recorder, the registering mechanism and paper-moving mechanism, combined with a time-stamp and electro-magnet for actuating it to print the paper, a circuit-changer, 12 13, and the electro-magnet '1.0, all substantially as described.

3. In a message and time recorder, the registering mechanism and paper-moving mechanism, combined 4with a time-stamp comprising a dial, c, and movable indicators or hands cooperating therewith, and a presser, the paper to be printed moving between the dial and presser, and an electro-magnet for said presser, substantially as described.

4. In a message and time recorder, the selfstarting register comprising a pen and penoperating magnet constituting the registering mechanism, and papermoving mechanism adapted to move the paper each time a message is received, combined with a time-stamp comprising motor mechanism for moving the time-printing indicators continuously, motor mechanism controlling the operation of said time-stamp to print the time upon the paper, and a releasing-lever for said motor mechanism, andan electro-magnet included in circuit with the said pen-operating magnet for controlling thc said releasing-lever, substantially as described.

5. In a message and time recorder, the pen and penoperating magnet constituting the code-registering mechanism, and paper-moving mechanism adapted t0 move the paper each time a message is being received, combined with a timestamp comprising time-printing devices and a presser or platen, the paper upon which the signal is recorded moving between the said time-printing devices and the platen, an electro-magnet controlling the operation of said time-stamp, and a circuit-changingdevice for the circuit of said electro-magnet, and an operating-magnet for said circuit-changing device included in circuit with the registermagnet, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. 

